{"id":10626,"date":"2014-11-03T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T07:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=10626"},"modified":"2020-03-15T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T17:11:06","slug":"veeam-7-restore-backups-without-installing-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/veeam-7-restore-backups-without-installing-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Veeam 7: restore backups without installing the application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"veeameasyrestore01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/veeameasyrestore01.jpg\" alt=\"veeameasyrestore01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veeam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Veeam Backup &amp;\u00a0Replication 7<\/a> as backup solution, there's a quick way to restore backups without installing the full application.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to quickly restore a VM, let's say the Veeam server, and both installation program file and license are temporarily not available, to <strong>reduce the offline time<\/strong> of your VM you just need three file contained in the Veeam program folder.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Procedure<\/h2>\n<p>You need to copy anywhere three files located in <strong>C:\\Program Files\\Veeam\\Backup<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Veeam.Backup.Extractor.exe<\/li>\n<li>Extract.exe<\/li>\n<li>Extract (used for Linux environments)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"veeameasyrestore02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/veeameasyrestore02.jpg\" alt=\"veeameasyrestore02\" width=\"549\" height=\"302\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Run <strong>Veeam.Backup.Extractor.exe<\/strong> file to open the tool. Click <strong>Browse<\/strong> button to select the location where the .VBK backup files are stored.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"veeameasyrestore03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/veeameasyrestore03.jpg\" alt=\"veeameasyrestore03\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specify the correct path of the backup storage and select the <strong>full backup .VBK file<\/strong> that contains the VM to restore. Click <strong>Open<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"veeameasyrestore04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/veeameasyrestore04.jpg\" alt=\"veeameasyrestore04\" width=\"600\" height=\"461\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tool needs few seconds to retrieve VM info.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"veeameasyrestore05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/veeameasyrestore05.jpg\" alt=\"veeameasyrestore05\" width=\"342\" height=\"94\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The VMs in the backup selected are shown. Click <strong>Browse<\/strong> button and <strong>select the path<\/strong> you want to extract the VM to (local folder or production storage). Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to confirm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"veeameasyrestore06\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/veeameasyrestore06.jpg\" alt=\"veeameasyrestore06\" width=\"600\" height=\"473\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thick the VM to restore then click <strong>Extract<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"veeameasyrestore07\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/veeameasyrestore07.jpg\" alt=\"veeameasyrestore07\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The VM is being extracted to selected<strong> Extract folder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"veeameasyrestore08\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/veeameasyrestore08.jpg\" alt=\"veeameasyrestore08\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The VM files are extracted to selected folder. You can now <strong>power on the VM<\/strong> or move it wherever you like.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"veeameasyrestore08\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/veeameasyrestore081.jpg\" alt=\"veeameasyrestore08\" width=\"513\" height=\"376\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following this procedure, you can extract the VM in <strong>any storage of the network<\/strong> to restore the VM functionality without installing the full Veeam application reducing the offline time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"firma\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Veeam Backup &amp;\u00a0Replication 7 as backup solution, there's a quick way to restore backups without installing the full application. If you need to quickly restore a VM, let's say the Veeam server, and both installation program file and license are temporarily not available, to reduce the offline time of your VM you just need three file contained in the Veeam program folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2138,933,903],"tags":[1078,936,584],"class_list":["post-10626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backup-en","category-veeam-en","category-vmware-en","tag-backup-and-replica","tag-restore-en","tag-veeam-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}